Anthrosource

Cultural Anthropology

Volume 22. Issue 4. November 2007 (Pages 501 - 538)

Cancer Butch:

S. LOCHLANN JAIN

The academic literature still tends to take Audre Lorde as the primary feminist theorist of breast cancer, and her The Cancer Journals (1997) remains, nearly three decades out, the definitive word on breast cancer and gender theory. In this article, I revisit the cultures and politics of cancer, offering a queer analysis of breast cancer in the U.S.